That day, stealth crept over

Fifty thousand beings

Or more; clouds invaded  central Hiroshima.
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The wretched shrieks, and shouts

Faded with billowing

Hypnotic fumes. No mercy did  the heavens show! 
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A giant cloud mushroomed,

Defying that black bomb,

Undoing death, undoing pain stood Gingko’s green.
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Wars can erase cities,

Humanity, and peace.

Can warfare, nature's bounty, undo? Alas think!

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